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PRESSING AND MOLDING MACHINE.

No. 470,518. Patented Mar. 8, 1892.

(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 2. J. L. SHUTE.

PRBSSING AND MOLDING MACHINE.

No. 470,513. Patented Mar. 8, 1892.

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PRESSING AND MOLDING MACHINE. Np. 470,513; Patented Mar. 8, 1892.

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JAMES L. SHUTE, OF GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF THREE- .EIGHTHS TO WILLIAM T. MERCHANT, OF SAME PLACE.

PRESSING AND MOLDING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 470,513, dated March 8, 1892. Application filed August 26, 1891. Serial No. 403,762. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.- I

Be it known that 1, JAMES L. SHUTE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Gloucester, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and usef ul Improvements in Pressin g and Molding Machlnes,of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is

a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in pressingand molding machines particularly designed for pressing and molding in brick forms fish, meat, or other food products, al-.

though it may to advantage be used'for the purpose of pressing and molding other articles or materials,if so desired.

The invention is carried out as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawin gs, wherein- Figure 1 represents a plan view of the improved machine. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal section of the same on. the line X X in Fig. 1, showing .a portion of the pressure device in elevation. Fig. 3 represents-a crosssection on the lineY Y in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 represents a cross-section on the line Z Z in Fig. i 1, and Fig. 5 represents a detail perspective view of one of the bottomless boxes in whichthe food or other articles is pressed and molded.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

The invention consists of a stationary plate A, preferably made of metal and provided with suitable guides, between which the molds or boxes are longitudinally reciprocated. In

the drawings I have shown such guides as made 1n the form of ribsa, a, projecting upwardly from the sides of theplate A; but this is not essential, as other or equivalent guides may be used without departingfrom the spirit of my invention.

are adapted to be moved forward and back on the plate A, are guided between the ribs a a, and are limited in their reciprocating motion by coming in contact with stop-pins or projections a a, preferably attached to the plate A near its ends, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

i A A are orifices made. through the plate A near its ends, as shown in Figs. 1,2, and 4:, the object of which will hereinafter be. described, the remaining portion of said plate being solid, as shown. In connection with said molds or boxes I use a pressure device for pressing and molding the food or other articles in said boxes, and for this purpose I have shown in the drawings a vertically-adjustable pressure-block D, secured to a rod or rods D D, adapted to slide up-and down in bearings or guides in the table B and brace b or otherstation ary part or parts of the machine.

E and E are a pair of knuckle-leverspivoted together at e, the lower, end of the lever E being pivoted at e to the pressure rod or rods D and the upper end of the lever E being pivoted at'e to the table B or other stationary part ofthe machine, as shown in Fig. 3. r i

F iSfEL hand-lever, the lower end-of which is pivoted at f to the brace b or other stationary part of the machine. x

F is a link pivoted in one end to the handlever F and in its other. end to the system of knuckle-levers E E, as fully represented in Fig; 3. By swinging the lever F outward, as shown in full lines in Fig. 3,the pressure-block D is raised above the top of the box (3 to permit said box to be moved to one side of the pressure-block D after the contents of the box C have been properly molded and pressed. By swinging the lever F inward, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3, the block D is depressed and caused to enter that one of the boxes C which for the time being is arranged below said pressure-block, by which the contents of said box are caused to be compressed and molded. After the food or article has been IOC pressed and molded, as above described, the boxes O are moved to the right or left, as the case may be, so that the box containing the pressed articles comes directly above one of the orifices A in the plate A, where the contents of the box are forced upward by means of a block G, fitting loosely in the orifice A, as shown in Fig. at. The 1 block G is forced upward by means of a treadle-lev'er G, pivoted at g and having its inner end connected to a rod or link G", the upper end of which is pivoted or connected in a suitable manner to the dischargeblock G, as fully shown in Fig. 4:.

In operating the machine the boxes are intermittently reciprocated, causing them to come alternately'bclow the pressure device and above the discharge devices. After the contents of one of the boxes have been discharged it is refilled with another quantityof food or other article to be pressed, while in the meantime the contentsof the box below the pressure device have been compressed; and molded by the action of the pressureblock D, which compresses the article or food '5 against the solid part of the plate A and in.- f sideof the bottomless'box 0. As soon as the article or food has been compressed under the block D the latter is raised and the boxes= moved, preferably by hand, so that the box containing the compressed article comes op.- posite to one of the plate perforations A and its discharge-block, while the refilled boxi comes directly below the pressure-block, and in the table for the vertical movements of the so on during the operation of the machine.

I When it is desired to tie the food by means I of strings, I make'notches G" .O." in the sides of the boxes, as shown in Fig. 5, adapted to iserve as guides in which the strings are laid, Q by means of which each brick or package is treadle mechanism for raising a-nd 'lowering tied, as is common in food-molding devices.

Having thus fullydes'cribed the nature, con- ,struction, and operation of my invention, I

ively, through the orifices, a pair of connected bottomless mold-boxes slidable rectilinear-1y back and forth on the guideway of the table, and means for independently raising and lowering the pressure-head and discharge-blocks, substantially as described.

2. A pressing and molding machine consistwith orifices which register with the apertures in the table for the vertical movementsof the discharge-blocks, a pair of connected bottomless moldboxes slidable recti'linearly back andforth on the plate and retained by theguides thereof, a hand-lever mechanism for raising and lowering the pressure-head, and devices independent of the'hand-lever mechanism for moving the dischargeeblocks upwardth-rough the table and plate, substantially as described.

3. A pressing and molding machine consisting of a table, a vertically-movable rod guided by the table and havinga pressure-head-at its upper end, a pair of vertically-movable rods having dischargerblocks at their upper ends which rise and fall through the apertures in the table at opposite, sides of the pressurehead, a plate attached to theupper side of the table, having parallel guides and: provided with orifices which register with theapertures discharge-blocks, a pair of connected bottomlessmold-boxes slidable back and forthon'the plate and retained by the guides thereof, a lever mechanism for raising and lowering the rod which carries the pressure head, and

the pair of rods which carry the discharge blocks, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence .of two subscribing witnesses, on this 22d day of August, A. D. 1891.

, JAMES L. SHUTE. NVitnesses:

J. P. WITH M, P. W. MERCHANT. 

